Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2017
Security experts from Heimdal Security discovered a new spam campaign over the weekend leveraging the TeamSpy malware to spy in victims. Security experts from Heimdal Security have uncovered a new spam campaign emerged over the weekend. The crooks used the notorious TeamSpy malware to gain full access to the target computers. It’s a long time we have no […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2017
The security experts at Palo Alto Networks published a detailed analysis of the architecture used to spread the Ursnif banking Trojan worldwide. Malware researchers from Palo Alto Networks are monitoring the diffusion of the Ursnif banking Trojan worldwide and have identified the architecture used to spread it. The Ursnif Trojan is spread via spam emails that contain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2017
Experts at Kaspersky Lab have analyzed several Android car apps and discovered that most of them lack proper security features to protect vehicles. Security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab have analyzed seven of the most popular Android apps that allow to remotely control millions of modern cars. The experts discovered that the Android apps, whose name […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2017
A group of hackers tracked as ViperRAT is spying on the Israeli military by hacking into the soldiers’ personal Android mobile devices. A group of hackers, tracked as ViperRAT, is spying on the Israeli military by hacking into the soldiers’ personal Android mobile devices to track their activities and steal sensitive data. Experts from security firms […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2017
Security experts have discovered a new SQL malware targeting online shops running on Magento that hides the code in the website’s database. Security experts have discovered a new strain of malware that is targeted websites raising Russian the Magento eCommerce platform. The novelty is that this is the first a malware that hides the code in the website’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2017
Security experts at IBM published a report that includes precious details on the attack chain of the dreader Shamoon cyberweapon. The dreaded Shamoon malware, aka Disttrack, has resurrected and government agencies and threat intelligence firms are investigating the recent strings of attacks leveraging the dangerous disk wiper. We detected the Shamoon malware for the first time in August 15th, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2017
Security experts at Bitdefender discovered a MAC OS version of the X-Agent malware used by the Russian APT28 cyberespionage group. Security experts at BitDefender have discovered a MAC OS malware program that’s likely part of the arsenal of the dreaded Russian APT 28 group (aka Pawn Storm, Sednit, Sofacy, Fancy Bear and Tsar Team). The Russian nation-state actor was involved […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2017
Malware researchers at the security firm Securify have published a detailed analysis of the Marcher Android banking Trojan. Security experts at the Securify have published a detailed analysis of the Marcher Android banking Trojan, a threat that has been around since late 2013. First variants of the malware were developed to trick users into handing over their payment card […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2017
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks spotted a campaign leveraging Microsoft Office loader using malicious macros to drop multiple malware families. The researchers analyzed more than 650 unique samples of this specific loader since early December 2016, accounting for 12,000 phishing email targeting numerous industries. Most affected industries are High Tech, Professional and Legal Services, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2017
Crooks exploiting Word documents laced with malicious macros to compromise Apple Mac systems exactly in the same way they do with Microsoft machines. It’s amazing the number of Apple Mac users that tell me their systems are immune from malware. This false sense of security is very dangerous and I believe it is important to […]
